Violet and Victor Write the Best-Ever Bookworm Book

by Alice Kuipers, Bethanie Deeney Murguia (Illustrator)

Overview

Violet and Victor Small are twins on a mission: to write the best book in the whole, entire world--together! Victor is reluctant, but Violet is determined, and soon the ideas can't come quickly enough.
They begin to write a story about a hungry Bookworm who is eating all the books in the library. Thanks to Victor's brilliant ideas, Violet is able to save the day (and the library).

This delightful story-within-a-story is filled with good-natured sibling rivalry, and focuses on the spirit of cooperation, the satisfaction of a job well-done, and the magic of storytelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316257749
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	12/02/2014
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Alice Kuipers is British but lives in Canada. She is the award-winning author of four young adult novels, and she tries her best to help Violet and Victor when they want writing tips for their books.

Bethanie Deeney Murguia earned an MFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is the creator of numerous picture books, including Zoe's Jungle and I Feel Five. Bethanie, her family, and their dog, Disco, live in Northern California.

Editorial Reviews

"Murguia creates extravagant visual representations of the possibilities that await readers (and writers) of stories...Entertaining, and likely to inspire readers to try putting their own stories together."—Publishers Weekly

"Clever fare for aspiring bookworms (especially siblings)."—Kirkus

"Fascinating illustrations are fun to study...The great blend of text and illustrations combine for an enjoyable story about writing a story."—Booklist

"A creative story and the sweetest tale ever."—School Library Connection

From the Publisher

2014-10-06
Twins collaborate in writing an original story about a "book-eating monster."When bossy Violet Small decides to "write the best-ever book in the whole entire world," she cajoles her twin brother, Victor, into helping. Far more interested in his pet worms, Victor suggests their hero should be a strong, brave worm, which Violet promptly changes to a strong, brave girl named Violet. Overhearing the school librarian complain that pages are missing from a book, Victor creates a gripping plot starring their heroine, who "creeps by comic books," "slips through stories," "eyeballs encyclopedias," "peers in pages" and "flies through fairy tales" in her quest to save the library from a terrible book-eating monster. The twins' editorializing is tracked from page to page, with Violet speaking in purple type and Victor in orange, while their versions of the story appear in childlike print in lavender and orange notebook-paper text boxes. Murguia comically presents the twins in graphite pencil sketches and, in "homage to the printed page," combines Photoshopped multimedia images from books, maps, library cards and origami sculptures to create fantastical backgrounds for their fictional hunt for the not-so-terrible book-eating monster. Clever fare for aspiring bookworms (especially siblings). (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews